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Re: Proposal: remove shells/bash2




> Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2015 at 9:13 AM
> From: "Benny Siegert" <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>
> To: "Ryo ONODERA" <ryo_on%yk.rim.or.jp@localhost>
> Cc: tech-pkg <tech-pkg%netbsd.org@localhost>
> Subject: Re: Proposal: remove shells/bash2
>
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 10:50 PM, Ryo ONODERA <ryo_on%yk.rim.or.jp@localhost> wrote:
> > Under SCO OpenServer 5, shells/bash does not work fine.
> > bash2 works fine.
> > (And its /bin/sh is horribly broken.)
> >
> > I will investigate shells/bash problem and I would like to
> > use shells/bash instead of bash2.
> >
> > I have not tested mksh yet.
> >
> > Please keep bash2 for a while.
> 
> OK, that is a good reason. Let's keep it.
> 
> --Benny.
> 

Please update the NetBSD documentation, e.g.:
"'bash' is another extended shell with command line editing, this time based on 'sh'. You can install it from the NetBSD packages collection, under shells/bash2." -- https://www.netbsd.org/docs/misc/



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